Short Plangent Poems

What can we pretend
Or how do we react
When  betrayal fails a friend?

Those twin imposters look nuclear
To wreck any pact
And so we let slip the dogs of war.

Yet there is strife
In winning or in loss
What matters in life 
Is much more than such dross

But pain,our plangent pain
Reverberates with raucous roars
When fast fading gain
erupts in Joblike sores....

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Raindrops falling

Haven’t seen the morning paper yet
Here are the raindrops
One, two, three..
The headlines must be…
Floods in Mumbai

Don’t go away
Listen to the voices

One, two, three…
Song of the protean wayfarer
Dance of the gypsies
Prancing sluices

Dont go away
Here goes the plangent fiddle too


What a way to water the day..


By: S.Jagathsimhan Nair...

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